Designing a system for fault tolerance is a robust design principle for building systems that will continue to operate correctly or in an acceptable degraded fashion. This approach is appropriate for ...

I am accelerating my plans to start a series on robust design principles because of the timely interest in the safety recall by Toyota for a sticking accelerator pedal. Many people are weighing in on ...

What is robust design optimization (RDO), and is it better than standard optimization? In this customer case, we describe a multi-disciplinary optimization of a turbocharger compressor from Ford Motor ...

Robust parameter design and multiresponse optimisation form a cornerstone of quality engineering, addressing the challenge of achieving consistent product or process performance under variability. By ...

Quality control starts with an inspection of the finished product, but this method does not affect quality. For continuous quality improvements, you have to combine the inspection with methods that ...

In Chapter 4, it is claimed that perhaps the majority of quality problems are caused by variation in quality characteristics. The evidence is that typically only a small fraction of units fail to ...